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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Plumbata, post: 3212583, member: 96864&quot;]The only &quot;pedigreed&quot; coins I have that come to mind are one &quot;From the BCD Collection; ex Dr. Walter Kimpel, December 1975.&quot; and a few others that had collection tags/cards rather older than I am. Aside from one&#039;s expectation that an ex-collection coin is both authentic and desirable enough to have been afforded a spot in someone&#039;s collection I don&#039;t really care and wouldn&#039;t pay a premium for it, unless it was something actually special like Roosevelt&#039;s pocket-piece tetradrachm which helped inspire some of the finest US coins ever minted, or a coin from a particularly noteworthy ancient hoard. Whether or not a coin has a provenance (recorded discovery place and/or chain of custodianship) it doesn&#039;t usually change the facts regarding what can be gleaned from the coin itself and aside from alleviating concerns regarding authenticity shouldn&#039;t be more than an ancillary factor influencing value.</p><p><br /></p><p>That stated, lots of people <i>can be sold</i> on the idea that pedigreed coins are more valuable, which is a great boon to dealers whose job it is to squeeze every shekel they can out of their inventory. Hype is profitable and human beings are inherently manipulable, so if a fancy story about some dead collector who once owned this coin or looked at that coin makes the piece more personally and emotionally relatable to some and thus adds a premium to the hammer price then more power to the dealers who exploit lucrative human idiosyncrasies, but I&#039;m not interested in being subjected to such transparent marketing strategies myself. </p><p><br /></p><p>Where provenance (location of discovery, not so much whose hands it passed through) is much more fundamental regarding value is with artifacts which do not generally benefit from being conveniently emblazoned with legends pinpointing their temporal and geographic origins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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